The Bowl Alliance was an agreement among college football bowl games (specifically the Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta Bowls) for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a national championship game and to provide quality bowl game matchups for the champions of its member conferences. The agreement was in place for the 1995, 1996, and 1997 seasons and had replaced the Bowl Coalition. Each participating team in the Bowl Alliance Championship received $8.5 million from the television sponsors.[1]
^"College Football '95: The Bowl Alliance; One More Time at Trying to Insure No. 1 vs. No. 2". New York Times. August 27, 1995.
The BowlAlliance was an agreement among college football bowl games (specifically the Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta Bowls) for the purpose of trying to match...
champion on the field (such as the Bowl Coalition from 1992 to 1994, the BowlAlliance from 1995 to 1997, the Bowl Championship Series from 1998 to 2013...
bowls. The BowlAlliance national championship game would be rotated amongst the Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Orange Bowl, with the Cotton Bowl dropped from...
and the Rose Bowl Game to join the "BowlAlliance" system. The expanded format was called the Bowl Championship Series. The BowlAlliance and its predecessor...
the BowlAlliance, with Michigan winning the 1998 Rose Bowl and Nebraska winning the 1998 Orange Bowl. Without the Pac-10/Big Ten team bound to a bowl game...
such as the Bowl Coalition from 1992 to 1994, the BowlAlliance from 1995 to 1997, and the Bowl Championship Series from 1998 to 2013. The FBS is the...
1990s, the Orange Bowl was a member of the Bowl Coalition, but kept its Big Eight tie-in. It was later a member of the BowlAlliance. From 1998 to 2013...
college football seasons. It was the predecessor of the BowlAlliance (1995–1997), and later the Bowl Championship Series (1998–2013) and the College Football...
with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country, surpassed only by the Rose Bowl Game. The Sugar Bowl was originally played...
replaced the BowlAlliance, in place from 1995 to 1997, which had followed the Bowl Coalition, in place from 1992 to 1994. Prior to the Bowl Coalition's...
Quiz bowl (quizbowl, scholars' bowl, scholastic bowl, academic bowl, academic team, etc.) is a family of quiz-based competitions that test players on a...
The 1998 Orange Bowl was played on January 2, 1998, and served as the BowlAlliance's designated national championship game for the 1997 season. This...
The 1996 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game which served as the BowlAlliance's designated national championship game...
The Cotton Bowl Classic (also known as the Cotton Bowl) is an American college football bowl game that has been held annually in the Dallas–Fort Worth...
field in bowl games such as this one. It would later be replaced by the BowlAlliance, BCS, and later the College Football Playoff systems, which took greater...
The 2005 Orange Bowl was the BCS National Championship Game of the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season and was played on January 4, 2005, at Pro Player...
The 1997 Nokia Sugar Bowl was the 63rd edition to the annual Sugar Bowl game and served as the BowlAlliance's designated national championship game for...
national championship game, as neither school participated in a Bowl Coalition, BowlAlliance, or BCS championship game. Both teams lost in the semifinals...
a post-season college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which began play...
the first National Championship game selected by the Bowl Coalition, predecessor to the BowlAlliance, BCS, and later the College Football Playoff. The game...
in either the BCS or its predecessors, the BowlAlliance and Bowl Coalition, following the 2000 Orange Bowl between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Michigan...
The 2004 Nokia Sugar Bowl, the BCS National Championship Game for the 2003 college football season, was played on January 4, 2004, at the Louisiana Superdome...
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